Regardless, the misquote was immediately seized upon by Fox News hosts, most notably Sean Hannity who despite replaying the clip in full on his show, continued to assert Tapper had said something wrong.

Hannity is continuing Fox's lies and smears by attacking @jaketapper for saying "Allahu Akbar" is a prayer sometimes said at "beautiful moments"

Hannity said: “Now shortly after the horrific incident you have liberal fake news, CNN’s fake news Jake Tapper - well he described the phrase shouted by the terrorist, ‘Alluha Akbar’, well he said that’s sometimes something can be said in ‘beautiful circumstances’.

He then plays the clip which again clearly shows Tapper saying nothing controversial and then has a go at CNN for translating the phrase into English.

He said: “I’m still trying to struggle with, what kind of mind goes on live television as seven bodies are on the streets of Manhattan and a chiiiilld, and then talks about the ‘beautiful phrase Alluha Akbar’ - where does that motivation come from for Jake Tapper.

“The desperation of trying to explain they did this to America because of animus to our foreign policy - I’ve got a newsflash... you know why what happened yesterday happened? Because they het who we are and what we stand for.

“We are the pinnacle of Judeo-Christian civilisation, we believe in the dignity of the individual, we believe in liberty and democracy - that is why they are coming here to kill us.”

Gorka is a self-professed expert on Islamic Terrorism with an “inept” doctorate and whose own friend described his “level of expertise [that] does not match the level where he [stood] in the White House”.